Nathan Winograd, the president of the No Kill Advocacy Center, is coming to town this summer for a weekend seminar to share insights on turning the Houston area into a "No Kill" Humane Animal area. From his group's website:

At the No Kill Advocacy Center, we believe that--as a movement--it is up to us to put aside the fatalistic attitudes that change is impossible; that the best we can offer homeless animals is a "humane" death; that a No Kill Nation is unattainable.

The Woodlands Dog Park Club will be hosting this event with Montgomery County Animal Shelter/Control on July 15 &16. They are co-sponsoring with a private individual , Mr. Bruce Dailey of Conroe.

Laura McConnell with the WDPC says, "Friends for Life has is helping with some of Mr. Winograd's travel expenses. Many people are coming together for the purpose of improving the lives of animals in Montgomery and Harris Counties. It is a wonderful thing. Joining together in a common purpose will get results and hopefully save many lives."

The WDPC will soon have more information about the weekend seminar posted on its website. In the meantime, Sherry Nassar, who's worked to improve conditions at BARC, says will be meeting next month with Houston's director of the Department of Health and Human Services, Stephen Williams, in hopes that he will attend.

ANY comments with profanity will be deleted as soon as I find them, and your IP address will be banned. If you can't make your point without cursing, you don't have any business posting.

It tears my heart out reading the story about that precious baby-Mercy. I would like to get my hands on the Idiot that set fire to Mercy, but as much as I'd like that, I know that violence begets violence. I can't stand cruelty or violence of any kind. God Bless you, Mercy (Baby Angel).

   --Posted by: Susan Shortell at April 25, 2006 5:38 AM